Judicial Corruption: Women who kill their children are given sympathy and sentenced to "treatment" while men who do the same thing are charged with murder and sentenced to life. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that women are many times more likely to murder their offspring than men.

spagma · 2011-09-12T15:30:25+00:00

Here I thought the OP was editorializing in the headline. Nope, its exactly as written in the article.

2011-09-12T18:19:12+00:00

This is an old case but holy shit!

2011-09-12T17:53:56+00:00

Since most custody of kids are giving to women and most mother's keep the kids, then of course most of the fouls committed to children will be from women.

firex726 · 2011-09-12T14:39:45+00:00

I would really like to hear the feminists and apologists try to rationalize this sort of behavior.

tylerhahn · 2011-09-12T14:39:45+00:00

look at the Casey Anthony case where mommy killed baby and she covered up the crime by getting rid of the evidence and the jurors said not guilty i think they aquitted her because she was a woman.

2011-09-13T13:05:36+00:00

Obviously this whole topic is horrible.. but post-partum depression is a huge contributor to infant homicides by their mother. This is not a get-out-of-jail-free card, but that would definitely seem to warrant treatment.

If males were capable of pregnancy induced depression I would support their treatment as well. In either case, treatment should not be the only "punishment", though. The law is meant to extend justice in as far as a criminal would disturb society or represent a threat, etc.

Call it draconian, but if you murder a kid under any circumstances, and are proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt-- you should never be considered a viable guardian for a child. Ever. Even your own... and you should also experience long imprisonment.

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